A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Vol. 2 - Softcover

Anderson, Bonnie S.; Zinsser, Judith P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060915633 ISBN 13: 9780060915636

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989

Synopsis

Reexamines European history from a feminist perspective and describes what life was like for women of each period

About this title

About the Author:

Bonnie S. Anderson is at C.U.N.Y. Brooklyn College. Judith P. Zinsser is at Miami University.

From Library Journal:

Organized around the thesis that "gender has been the most important factor in shaping the lives of European women," this sweeping history describes women's experience in terms of social groups and work, with chronology secondary. The approach, which revealed interesting themes in volume 1 ( LJ 5/1/88), is inadequate for the rapid changes of the 19th and 20th centuries. More minor flaws mar this volume. The section on prostitution flows directly into that dealing with performing arts, perpetuating an unfortunate old association. Women's struggles to organize trade unions are greatly oversimplified. Only partially successful. Mary Drake McFeely, Univ. of Georgia Lib., Athens
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060915633
• ISBN 13: 9780060915636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 572